5:00 Oclock PM in The Square

Entry 22

5:00 pm Cairo Time

This is the first phone call to relay in the last four hours. They are telling me that the reason they are not answering the phone is because they were busy undertaking the complex task of trying to smuggle food and medicine in to the protestors. People in plain clothes carrying heavy stick are guarding the entrances to the square so that protestors that remained there over night cannot be fed or treated.

Some food and medicine were smuggled in but the majority of people you see on TV have been fed very little and have no access to medical relief.           

Thousands and thousands of protestors fill the square  and have organized themselves in series of circles. Some are singing and some have been chanting anti-Mubarak slogans since this morning.

Spirits are up even though there are a confirmed number of dead from last night of 14 people who were killed by none other than live bullets. Several callers have confirmed the use of live bullets in what simulates common drive-by shootings.

There is no violent contact occurring at the moment apart from heavy stone throwing in one area by the Egyptian Museum.

If you are reading this and you have any influence, know that you can save lives today if you help influence events to meet this simple demand. Let Mubarak give up the remaining months, as a show of his knowledge of where he went wrong by preventing us from being a true democracy, and we will ALL GO HOME IMMEDIATELY.

We will cooperate with Mr. Omar Soliman entirely if this need is met.

PLEASE READ ENTRY 17 or Entry 10 or THE FIRST ENTRY OF THIS BLOG FOR BACKGROUND